HAN-GOOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Han-Gook mean? 

• HAN-GOOK (noun)
  The noun HAN-GOOK has 1 sense:

1. an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min-Gook or Han-Gook

  Familiarity information: HAN-GOOK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAN-GOOK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min-Gook or Han-Gook

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Dae-Han-Min-Gook; Han-Gook; Korea; Korean Peninsula

Instance hypernyms:

peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Han-Gook"):

D.P.R.K.; Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK; North Korea (a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948)

Republic of Korea; South Korea (a republic in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948)

Domain member region:

Chino-Japanese War; Sino-Japanese War (a war between China and Japan (1894 and 1895) over the control of the Korean Peninsula; China was overwhelmingly defeated at Port Arthur)

Korean War (a war between North and South Korea; South Korea was aided by the United States and other members of the United Nations; 1950-1953)

Instance hyponyms:

Chosen (the name for Korea as a Japanese province (1910-1945))

Holonyms ("Han-Gook" is a part of...):

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)